Re: A KernelShark plugin for Xen traces analysis

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 02:50:53 +0200
Dario Faggioli <dfaggioli@suse.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 15:07 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:11:19 +0100
> > Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > Where the plugin (ought to) live depends heavily on whether we
> > > consider
> > > the trace format a stable ABI or not.  
> > 
> > Agreed. Like the VMware plugin to handle ESX traces. It's internal
> > and not
> > published as the API is not stable.
> >   
> Mmm... Does this imply that Linux's tracepoints should be considered a
> stable ABI then? :-D :-D :-D

Some already are. Like the sched_switch tracepoint. That's one of the
reasons Peter Zijlstra now hates exported tracepoints.

> 
> > But if it ever becomes stable, and you would like it to live with
> > KernelShark, we are looking to have a place to store third party
> > plugins.
> >   
> Sure. TBH, either Xen or KernelShark main or plugin repositories would
> be fine for me.
> 
> Which doesn't mean we should choose randomly, as clearly each solution
> has pros and cons that needs to be evaluated.
> 
> I'm just saying that we would prefer the plugin to end up in one of
> those places, rather than remaining its own project. And of course
> we're up for maintaining it, wherever it lands. :-)

Like I said, we can have a third party repository within the KernelShark
repo (or along side of it). As a claws-mail user, I like their method. They
have a bunch of plugins you can add that they have in their repo, but those
plugins are maintained by different people.

-- Steve


> 
> > We are working to make sure that the API for KernelShark plugins
> > remains
> > stable, so your plugins should always work too.
> >   
> Great!
> 
> Regards